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puff up


verb
1. make larger or distend (Freq. 1)
- The estimates were puffed up
Hypernyms:
inflate, blow up, expand, amplify
Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
2. to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs" (Freq. 1)
- puffed out chests
Syn:
puff, blow up, puff out
Derivationally related forms:
puffer (for: puff)
Hypernyms:
swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce
Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
- Did his feet puff up?
3. become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
- The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son
Syn:
swell
Hypernyms:
act, behave, do
Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
4. praise extravagantly
- The critics puffed up this Broadway production
Syn:
puff
Derivationally related forms:
puff (for: puff)
Hypernyms:
praise
Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something


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